Ibiza Mayhem 2012
| Ibiza Mayhem 2012 | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by Tim Scott | ||||||||||
| Released | December 16th 2011 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2009–2011 Acer Studios (Hazel Grove, Cheshire) |
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| Genre | Instrumental, House music, Trance, Drum and bass, Dubstep, Experimental, Fusion, Dance, Funk, Latin | |||||||||
| Length | 39:04 | |||||||||
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Acer ACERDDA003 5060187620366 LC-19105 (Download, December 16th 2011) |
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| Producer | Tim Scott | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| CityLife |   |
| Guitarist (magazine) | |
| Guitar Techniques (magazine) | |
Ibiza Mayhem 2012 is the third studio album by solo instrumental artist Tim Scott, first released on iTunes on the 16th of December 2011. Comprising the seven singles released from November 2009 to December 2011, Ibiza Mayhem 2012 is formatted much like a hits compilation.
The concept of the album was to bring Tim Scott’s Guitar Mashing to a much wider audience which has been reiterated by the national magazine critique.
This album was recorded, mixed and produced by Tim Scott at Acer Studios, Greater Manchester and was mastered on November 26, 2011 by Geoff Pesche in Suite 5 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
CityLife gave the album a positive review stating:
"Stockport's own guitar maestro Tim Scott could easily have been one of the many legions struggling to sustain a career in the shadow of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai - still the only purveyors of virtuosic rock guitar instrumentals that the man and woman in the street could pick out of a line-up. Instead, Scott took his guitar where, hitherto, the guitar had not exactly been welcome… clubland! He began attaching his bewilderingly fine guitar-noodling to the kind of rhythms you would expect to hear in a Balearic club rather than a rock venue. It was a cunning move. Although you will hear some familiar cheesy Ibiza synth sounds here and some floor-quaking beats, you will also hear something more musically eloquent than usual dance fare. It is good to hear this kind of fast and furious guitar playing set against this kind of rhythm too; the one complaint I've had about the likes of Satriani in the past is that, rhythmically, they are sometimes not very adventurous. The Spanish flavour here lends itself to a kind of turbo-charged flamenco, which Scott does very well indeed. Perhaps we could do with a little more at a lower tempo, like the slightly less frenetic One Life which demonstrates a lovely touch from Scott, worthy of Satch himself. But you wonder whether this album may fall between two stools: too clubby for the guitar nuts, too axe-heavy for the clubbers. That would be a shame, as Scott is a genuine innovator."
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